What are you reading in December?

In the midst of doing Christmas cards, digging out wrapping paper, etc. I am enjoying Dead Simple.

Someone sent me an excerpt from this author's newest release and I remembered that I had this and started to read it. It's creeping me out, but it's good so far!

I'm finishing up Guppies for Tea and I just got my Nov ER book How to Eat a Cupcake which should be an easy read during this busy season. There are a couple more that I'm reading that I pick up now and then, but not sure I'll finish any others this month.

ETA: I'm tempted to drag out finishing my ER book till 1 Jan because I actually added an ER category to my challenge for next year.

I'm reading Home by Marilynne Robinson and enjoying it just as much as I enjoyed Gilead a couple years ago.

I'm having a great time with A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel.

I'm working on an ARC of Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice and listening to The Murder of the Century, which I might be able to finish tonight.

I'm reading Hounded by Kevin Hearne, although I should really read the rest of my 11 in 11 books first!

I'm enjoying Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie and about to start Trouble's Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrik.

#1 - Lisa, I loved Dead Simple! I couldn't put it down. Of course, it creeped me out a bit, too.

I'm trying to finish up Unsolicited by Julie Kaewert tonight so I can begin Burial at Sea by Charles Finch which finally arrived. (It was a September ER win.) I'm also reading several non-fiction books (two for a book award committee, two for review in a library publication). I'm hoping to get to some of my Christmas titles by next weekend!

@ 8 -- I just got my copy of A Burial at Sea as well! Can't wait to read it, but I'm going to go with Shannon Hale's Forest Born first.

#7 Judy, Dead Simple is great, I can't seem to put it down either!

I can't remember if I read Hercule Poirot's Christmas but it seems familiar. Sometimes it's hard to tell with the alternate titles of her books.

I've started The Lost Van Gogh by A.J. Zerries.

Needed something light, so I switched over to The Mischief of the Mistletoe.

reading the rather strange desolation island which is likely to be my last book before the 12/12, also just finished revenge of the lawn and down the rabbit hole.....

I finished Dead Simple which was great and I am almost finished Wishin and Hopin.

I've started the audio of Hercule Poirot's Christmas and I'm reading An Irish Country Christmas. I'm also still working on Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice.

I'm reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground as my penultimate book in this challenge.

I am reading a sentimental seasonal story, A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg, and I am about to start a YA mystery called Waterslain Angels by Kevin Crossley-Holland.

A Redbird Christmas is one of my favorite Christmas books of recent years.

It started out a little slow for me, but now I am enjoying The Envious Casca.

It's the usual how on earth could the victim have been murdered when the door and window were locked? But, it takes place at Christmas, and the characters are fun.

I'm reading Murder for Christmas, a collection of short stories edited by Thomas Godfrey. My last book for the challenge!

I'm still reading A Place of Greater Safety, which is an all-consuming kind of book.

I'm reading What the family needed by Steven Amsterdam and an ER book, Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman.

Reading Rains All The Time: A Connoisseur's History of Weather In The Pacific Northwest by David Laskin. We lived in Oregon for 27 years. Whereas I miss gardening there very, very much, as well as the rugged coast, myrtle trees, and all such beautiful things, I can't imagine enduring another gray winter.

I haven't had much time for print books this month. Thank goodness for audio books! I finished listening Hercule Poirot's Christmas last night and I'm already halfway through the audio of A Bitter Truth, the 3rd book in Charles Todd's Bess Crawford series.

Currently reading George R.R Martin's Game
Of Thrones. The first in his song of ice & fire series! Have heard they are amazing so hopefully I find them hard to put down :)

*Bump!* I'm still fighting the lost battle with this challenge, ra ra! Currently in the middle of the portal work of Finnish 19th century literature: filthy, fun and surprisingly modern Seven brothers by Alexis Kivi

After a very slow start to the month, I finished a couple of print books and an audiobook over the weekend (An Irish Country Christmas, Shepherds Abiding, A Christmas Journey). I'm currently reading No Clue at the Inn by Kate Kingsbury and I'm listening to A Christmas Visitor by Anne Perry.

I finished Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay and am now reading a thriller sent to me through the ER program called The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi, which is not particularly well written, but the plot moves along quickly.

I'm rereading Harry Potter this holiday, so I've just started The Philosopher's Stone and will be in that world through the New Year!

-Eva-
(formerly bookoholic13)

Thanks for the bump to the thread Anders! I am currently reading The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano. Thought I would take a glimpse at his writing style before the group read for 2666 starts over on the 12 in 12 group next year.

I'm reading Snow Angels and I am really enjoying it. I like it so much that I have my eye on the sequel.

I just finished Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) and am now reading A Gentleman of Fortune by Anna Dean.

I may finish Goliath by Scott Westerfeld tonight and I'm about halfway through Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind by Bruce Fagan.

I am starting An Irish Country Christmas and I also have The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi from the ER program to read and review.

I'm still slogging through The Lost Van Gogh. It has art and Nazis and New York, I should be loving it, but can't seem to make much headway.

I finished Kaitlyn Dunnett's A Wee Christmas Homicide and Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods. I'm working on Persuasion by Jane Austen now. I'm also ready to review a cookbook that I received as a Christmas gift, The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook. I've got several more Christmas books I'd like to read in the next few days as well. I guess I'll see how much I can fit in.

I'm working through two Early Reviewer books which arrived on the same day, despite having been won months apart. One is an Italian thriller, The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi, in which the poor writing is not being overcome by the plot, which is nonsensical. On the other hand, A Small Furry Prayer by Steven Kotler started in a sort of squishily philosophical way that worried me, but when he's writing concrete things about running a small dog rescue in New Mexico, it's quite good. Lots of mystical stuff to skim, however.

I hope everyone got lots of books or whatever you wanted for Christmas.

I will be finishing the week and the year with: The Redeemer, A Touch of Frost, The Candy Cane Murder, and Playing for Ashes.

I'm reading Moby Dick on my brand new kindle fire, and Calling Mr. King by Ronald De Feo on paper.

# 39 Very cool, that Santa brought you the Kindle Fire. My sister got a Nook, and now I'm feeling like mine is ancient as it's a year and half old lol!

What better way to wrap up the year than by some truly bleak short stories? I'm reading The games of night by Stig Dagerman.

That is an excellent name. If he wanted to write romance novels or cozy mysteries, he'd have to change his name.

@ 42 -- But he could transition to political thrillers with very little effort!

I've just finished The affair by Lee Child, a good racy thriller and now need to finish the more serious The Concert Ticket by Olga Grushin and the magical The Inquisitor's Apprentice by Chris Moriarty.